Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data
This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken within the many national projects. The third section illustrates the possibilities and directions for new research in comparative public policy using the data presented in this book. All the data used and discussed in the book is moreover publicly available.

The book represents a significant contribution to the study of comparative public policy. By introducing a unified research infrastructure it opens up new possibilities for both empirical and theoretical research in this area.
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Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data
This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken within the many national projects. The third section illustrates the possibilities and directions for new research in comparative public policy using the data presented in this book. All the data used and discussed in the book is moreover publicly available.

The book represents a significant contribution to the study of comparative public policy. By introducing a unified research infrastructure it opens up new possibilities for both empirical and theoretical research in this area.
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This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken within the many national projects. The third section illustrates the possibilities and directions for new research in comparative public policy using the data presented in this book. All the data used and discussed in the book is moreover publicly available.

The book represents a significant contribution to the study of comparative public policy. By introducing a unified research infrastructure it opens up new possibilities for both empirical and theoretical research in this area.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198835332
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/14/2019
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Frank R. Baumgartner started the US-based Policy Agendas Project with Bryan Jones over twenty-five years ago, and has been involved in its comparative extensions from the beginning. His research has variously focused on public policy processes, lobbying, agenda-setting, framing, race and criminal justice, and the death penalty. He has worked over the years in both American and comparative public policy issues.

Christian Breunig is professor of comparative politics at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He is interested in issues of representation and public policy, in particular law-making and budgetary politics, in advanced democracies. He directs the German Policy Agendas Project which is part of the Comparative Agendas Project.

Emiliano Grossman is professor of political science at Sciences Po. He teaches comparative politics and public policy at Sciences Po, where he is the convenor of the program in politics and public policy. His research concentrates on political institutions, agenda-setting processes, and the role of media in politics. He is currently co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research. He has recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of French Politics.

Table of Contents

I. Roots, Foundations, and Evolution

Chapter 1 The Comparative Agendas Project: Intellectual Roots and Current Developments by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman
Chapter 2 1. Gone Fishing: The Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook by Shaun Bevan
Chapter 3 The Comparative Agendas Project: The Evolving Research Interests and Designs of the CAP Scholarly Community by Stefaan Walgrave and Amber E. Boydstun

II. Country Projects

Chapter 4 The Australian Policy Agendas Project by Keith Dowding, Aaron Martin, and Rhonda L. Evans
Chapter 5 The Belgian Agendas Project by Stefaan Walgrave, Jeroen Joly, and Julie Sevenans
Chapter 6 The Canadian Agendas Project by Jean-Philippe Gauvin and Éric Montpetit
Chapter 7 Croatian Political Agendas by Daniela Širinić and Dario Nikić Čakar
Chapter 8 The Danish Agendas Project by Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Peter B. Mortensen
Chapter 9 The French Agendas Project by Emiliano Grossman
Chapter 10 Political Agendas in Germany by Christian Breunig and Tinette Schnatterer
Chapter 11 The Hungarian Agendas Project by Zsolt Boda and Miklós Sebõk
Chapter 12 The Israeli Agendas Project by Nir Kosti, Ilana Shpaizman, and David Levi-Faur
Chapter 13 The Italian Agendas Project by Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, and Federico Russo
Chapter 14 The Dutch Policy Agendas Project by Arco Timmermans and Gerard Breeman
Chapter 15 The New Zealand Policy Agendas Project by Rhonda L. Evans
Chapter 16 The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project by Ana Maria Belchior and Enrico Borghetto
Chapter 17 Agenda Dynamics in Spain by Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau, and Luz Muñoz Màrquez
Chapter 18 The Swiss Policy Agendas Project by Roy Gava, Pascal Sciarini, Anke Tresch, and Frédéric Varone
Chapter 19 The Turkish Policy Agendas Project by Alper Tolga Bulut and Tevfik Murat Yildirim
Chapter 20 The UK Policy Agendas Project by Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings
Chapter 21 The US Policy Agendas Project by Rebecca Eissler and Bryan D. Jones
Chapter 22 The EU Policy Agendas Project by Petya Alexandrova
Chapter 23 Agenda-Setting in the Florida Legislature by Kevin Fahey, Patrick Merle, Teresa Cornacchione, and Carol Weissert
Chapter 24 Pennsylvania Policy Database Project by Jay Jennings, Stefanie Kasparek, and Joseph McLaughlin

III. Comparative Perspectives

Chapter 25 The Public Agenda: A Comparative Perspective by Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings
Chapter 26 From Public to Publics: Assessing Group Variation in Issue Priorities in the United States and Israel by Amnon Cavari and Guy Freedman
Chapter 27 Protest and Agenda-Setting by Stefaan Walgrave and Rens Vliegenthart
Chapter 28 The Media Agenda by Rens Vliegenthart and Stefaan Walgrave
Chapter 29 Parliamentary Questions by Enrico Borghetto and Laura Chaqués-Bonafont
Chapter 30 Connecting Government Announcements and Public Policy by Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman, and Tinette Schnatterer
Chapter 31 The Europeanization of Parliamentary Attention in and out of the European Union: France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland Compared by Pascal Sciarini, Frédéric Varone, Roy Gava, Sylvain Brouard, Julien Navarro, Anna M. Palau, and Rens Vliegenthart
Chapter 32 Horizontal and Vertical Attention Dynamics: Environmental Problems on Executive Policy Agendas in EU Member States by Gerard Breeman and Arco Timmermans
Chapter 33 Using CAP Data for Qualitative Policy Research by Ilana Shpaizman
Chapter 34 Issue Attention in West European Party Politics: CAP and CMP Coding Compared by Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Chapter 35 Advancing the Study of Comparative Public Policy by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman
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